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Evidence Room.

Nothing here is invented. Every claim carries a source. Every reconstruction is labeled the moment it appears.

DOCUMENTED

Sourced directly from primary evidence — official transcripts, contemporaneous records, verified recordings.

e.g. Apollo 11 air-to-ground loop, timestamped to the second.

PROBABLE

Reasonable reconstruction from established context, physical layouts, and standard practice of the time.

e.g. Room tone, wind direction, unfilmed gestures corroborated by witnesses.

DRAMATIZED

Atmospheric only. Used sparingly and always identified in-line.

e.g. A distant bell, a shifting chair — never dialogue, never facts.

Our method, in four steps.

STEP 01
Primary source first.
We start from official records — transcripts, recordings, inquiry testimony, laboratory notebooks. If a moment cannot be sourced, it is not built.
STEP 02
Timestamp everything.
Every spoken line, every telemetry beat, every event is aligned to a known clock. When times disagree between sources, we cite both.
STEP 03
Label reconstruction.
Room tone, unfilmed gestures, ambient sound — all marked PROBABLE or DRAMATIZED and shown in the moment itself.
STEP 04
Show our work.
Every experience carries its source list. Every myth we've heard, we address. Corrections welcome — see Suggest.

Click any moment to see its sources, key witnesses, and its evidence label.

Sources

Perspectives reconstructed

Key witnesses

Myth vs. fact

MYTH · Armstrong flubbed his 'one small step' line.
FACT · He always insisted he said 'a man.' Audio analysis is inconclusive — the 'a' may be lost in transmission.
MYTH · The 1202 alarm nearly aborted the landing.
FACT · Steve Bales, a 26-year-old guidance officer, called 'GO' on the alarm within seconds — he'd rehearsed the exact failure in sim two weeks earlier.